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Huntington W. Sharp

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19h
Say it isn't so www.nytimes.com/athletic/769...
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FIFA Peace Prize could be scrapped a year on from Donald Trump win
Trump was given the inaugural prize last December but he could be the only recipient with a FIFA committee now reviewing the award.
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Gender-critical lawn gnomes in K-dramas have ruined us.
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Duchess Goldblatt @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Another couple of billion years and we won't even remember what the fuss was all about.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I mean this is just a fucking lie that they all "came into our country illegally." Plenty of them came in completely legally, they may have overstayed a visa, have an asylum claim, a green card application etc etc. Our system is bad! Immigrants are good!
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Gay ISIS Brony @rainbowdaesh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ralph Nader in 2000: “A bumbling Texas governor would galvanize the environmental community as never before.” Instead a million Iraqis were murdered and nothing was done about climate change for a decade. The Green Party has always been a republican operation that rubes keep falling for.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This Middle East regional war we've got... The war with fighting and airstrikes, to varying degrees, in Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, Oman, Jordan, Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, and the West Bank... What if we're still in the earlier stages?
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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
THE PREMISE IS THAT THE MUPPETS ARE PUTTING ON A SHOW CALLED THE MUPPET SHOW
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wrote a thing about Gloria Steinem and how profoundly feminism changed and continues to change the world.
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Gloria Steinem Helped Transform the World for Everyone
To become old is to be an immigrant from a country that no longer exists, and to live among peers who sometimes remember that country and among younger people who mostly don't know how different the p...
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The Shadow Over Innschwartz ✨🦑✨ @benschwartz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
You'd think she'd be nicer to a guy who could write her a Vicodin prescription.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 03/09/2026
I met Gloria Steinem, for just a few minutes, at the office a little more than a decade ago and remember particularly how soft-eyed and elegant she seemed. (And, as I recall, tiny.) But she was a titan. Farewell to her.
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The marketized revolution of the leftist paradigm is nothing but spitting bars and an endless implosion into the neurodivergent image of the self.
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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I'm sorry, but every time I see the name of the new Democratic nominee for U.S. senator from Florida, I think it's this soap opera icon. And I didn't even grow up watching ABC soaps!
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Crumbs the Cat @crumbsthecat.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This is the part that kills me about so many leftists. They think of the party as management and themselves as labor, when they should be treating the party as a coop.
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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Am I the only one who thinks it’s funny that Willie Brown endorsed Tom Steyer, the progressives’ darling?
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I wrote about the possibility that we live in hell and what it means to "choose happiness" johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/just-be-ha...
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JUST BE HAPPY
Suffering, Swedenborg, and the hells we choose
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Ulrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Some things have to be believed to be seen. ~Madeleine L'Engle
[from The Temple of Flora by Robert John Thornton]
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 03/03/2026
So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for: - Who takes over; - Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation; - How to defend US bases in the region; - Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and - How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.
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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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Ulrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
It seems to me that we are in the midst of a very hard battle and every day we are at risk of losing everything, even the syntax of truth. ~Elena Ferrante [photo by Yaşar Koç]
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The speech in full. www.policymagazine.ca/the-old-orde...
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'The Old Order is Not Coming Back': Mark Carney's Speech to the World Economic Forum - Policy Magazine
The following is the text of Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 20, 2026.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Dismantling DHS is an entirely achievable goal for Democrats at this point. You can have Fox yell at you for being a radical leftist or whatever, but you're going to have endless images of paramilitary goons assaulting people on TV, and voters will associate you with wanting to end that.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
A long way to say, “He lied to the voters.”
Screenshot from Washington Week showing a news segment discussing why President Trump distanced himself from Project 2025 during the campaign but later hired Russell Vought. A male news analyst appears on screen in front of the White House at night.
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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Happy Nichelle Nichols’s birthday to all who celebrate!
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Aliza Shatzman ✡️ @alizashatzman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.
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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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Why Are Democrats So Afraid to Even Mention the Source of Trump’s Political Power?
We're not doing this country any favors by steering people away from the truth.
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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Your brain is not a computer. Your thoughts are not algorithmic. Don’t let Silicon Valley limit your understanding of your own mind with inaccurate metaphors.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/11/2025
this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
“Zohran Mamdani wants people to prosper, even those who didn’t vote for him. Donald Trump wants to execute everyone who disagrees with him. Could this represent a new coalition in American politics?” ME, AFTER SUFFERING A MASSIVE CONCUSSION
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Brosephus @brosephus.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Even those who didn't rely on them will feel the pain as insurance premiums are going to jump for almost everyone. The only question is whether Americans will learn from this or not. Whiteness is not a force field that protects you from harm, and white folks ain't equipped to handle what's coming.
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Brosephus @brosephus.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
A lot of people who claim to be mad today had a golden opportunity to avoid this fate after year ago. It's never been a matter of if all of this would happen. The only question was how quickly would it happen. I hurt for those who relied on ACA subsidies for coverage.
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ShellsTheMerryZionist @stayscathed.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I need those ACA subsidies. My neighbors need food. I’m not going to fault the only party that wants us to have both for only being able to secure the food. Be mad at Republicans. Be mad at your maga family. Use the rest of your energy to give Democrats a majority.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
So much lying. First, there *is* a legal mechanism for tapping contingency funds. Second, most important, Johnson cites times when Trump ILLEGALLY moved money around, especially to pay military. Trump won't break the law for hungry people, though. Why?
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 21/10/2025
I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I'm begging for Trotskyists to add an ounce of Critical Race Theory to their politics.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 30/09/2025
Just thinking today of all the colleagues who called us alarmists and cranks when we pointed out that Trump was talking and acting like a fascist in 2016
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Washington County Democrats @washcodems.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I keep coming back to this essay by Zinn, "The Optimism of Uncertainty." Especially the second screenshot. www.howardzinn.org/collection/t...
I have tried hard to match my friends in their pessimism about the world (is it just my friends?), but I keep encountering people who, in spite of all the evidence of terrible things happening everywhere, give me hope. Especially young people, in whom the future rests.

Wherever I go, I find such people. And beyond the handful of activists there seem to be hundreds, thousands, more who are open to unorthodox ideas. But they tend not to know of one another’s existence, and so, while they persist, they do so with the desperate patience of Sisyphus endlessly pushing that boulder up the mountain.

I try to tell each group that it is not alone, and that the very people who are disheartened by the absence of a national movement are themselves proof of the potential for such a movement.

Revolutionary change does not come as one cataclysmic moment (beware of such moments!) but as an endless succession of surprises, moving zigzag toward a more decent society. We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Even when we don’t “win,” there is fun and fulfillment in the fact that we have been involved, with other good people, in something worthwhile. We need hope.

From: The Optimism of Uncertainty
By Howard Zinn • 
ZCommunications • September 30, 2004; The Nation • September 20, 2004

An optimist isn’t necessarily a blithe, slightly sappy whistler in the dark of our time. To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something.

If we remember those times and places–and there are so many–where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.



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The Optimism of Uncertainty
By Howard Zinn • 
ZCommunications • September 30, 2004; The Nation • September 20, 2004
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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’
The far-right commentator didn’t pull his punches when discussing his bigoted views on current events
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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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No, I won't be shedding any tears for Charlie Kirk - LGBTQ Nation
He spent his life fomenting hatred against me, my friends, and neighbors. And now we're supposed to fly flags at half-mast for him?
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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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Take the Pledge: Yes on Prop 50, No to Trump - Courage California
Prop 50 will help us take back the House and stop the billionaire-backed raids on our communities and wallets.
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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/l... Sympathy. It could happen here, anytime.
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At least 250 killed in 6.0-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan
Hundreds of other people were injured in the quake, which struck Jalalabad near the border with Pakistan.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Is Andrew Cuomo having a nervous breakdown?
Andrew Cuomo & @andrewcuomo
In case you forgot, l'm Andrew Cuomo, son of Mario, grandson of Andrea.
Welcome to the heavyweight bout,
@ZohranKMamdani
This is a two man race. You look tired already. It's just the second round.
2:40 PM • 8/8/25 • 14K Views
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 07/08/2025
Investing in Confederate monuments. Banning library books. Renaming bases and ships. For all of Pete Hegseth’s posturing about a “warrior ethos” and being “laser-focused” on winning wars, he sure does seem fixated on fighting the culture wars. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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With support for a Confederate monument, Pete Hegseth’s culture war crusade intensifies
The secretary might claim to be “laser-focused” on fighting wars, but his record suggests he’s far more interested in fighting the culture wars.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
lol
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Huntington W. Sharp @huntingtonsharp.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
www.theatlantic.com/internationa... Most Israelis, including the security establishment, want no part of this.
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Israel’s Settler Right Is Preparing to Annex Gaza
A radical campaign that began in 2023 is entering its final phase.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell
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